Eskimo can you not go down to the offices? I followed a girl on twitter a few weeks ago, she queued for around 3 hours, saw someone and they told her to “come back in 4 hours” and the passport was waiting for her when she did. They pull it up on the system using just your pex number. Once it’s been 10 weeks since your application or within 48 hours of a flight this is OK to do, but I think people less than 10 weeks are queuing too. I stopped worrying about my application being done the “normal” way weeks ago and resigned myself to queuing up after 15th july